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Radio Vérté Presents: The Spoon River Gothic Podcast - True Crime Narratives Written & Narrated by Cory Zimmerman
Daniella Mestyanek Young was born a third-generation member of the infamous Children of God religious cult.
She grew up being trafficked around the world before escaping that life and moving to the United States at age 15. She put herself through high school and graduated as college valedictorian before commissioning into the US Army as an intelligence officer. She received a Master of Arts in Organizational Psychology at the Harvard Extension School and focuses her research on group behavior, social norms, culture, extremism, leadership demagoguery, and cults.
She is the author of UNCULTURED: A Memoir.
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